Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Sept. 7 review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead some readers to infer that it was because of British insularity or snobbishness. The reason was that the Indian officer's caste might be broken if he ate with nonbelievers in his religion...
...Kipling wrote: ". . . There entered a native officer who had played for the Lushkar team. He could not, of course, eat with the alien . . ." His own choice; not that of his hosts. His religion would not have permitted him to eat the alien's food, drink his wine. Altering "alien" to "mess" clearly implies Kipling meant the native had been excluded, perhaps by racial prejudice...
...Kipling also believed that there was ambiguity in the phrase "he could not ... eat with the mess"; he therefore altered "mess" to "alien" in later editions. Editor Maugham's version was set from early editions...
...supper-time-to the relief of the government-he was bawling for food. "I have only been able to preserve my physical powers with strong food," said the man who ruled Iran for 28 months, mostly while encased in pajamas, and lying on a cot. "I must eat three roast chickens every day ... a robust soup and a good dessert...
...daze of weakness. All at once, Gibson realized that there were only seven people left alive-himself, another white man, four Javanese and a Chinese girl named Doris Lim, who had been a British secret agent. The Javanese attacked the other white man and began to eat him while he was still alive. The oldest Javanese died the same night...